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Marblefish: The Odd Surgeon of the Southern Kelp
Marbled, thick-lipped and built to crop kelp: the marblefish of New Zealand and southern Australia, a herbivore with the reef's strangest tools.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
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Opaleye: The Blue-Eyed Grazer of the Shallow Kelp
The opaleye is a herbivorous sea chub with opal-blue eyes that shapes California's shallow reefs from tidepools to kelp edges. Biology, diet and ecology.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
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Greenbone (Odax pullus): New Zealand's Kelp-Eating Butterfish
The greenbone — also called butterfish — is New Zealand's own kelp grazer, a beak-toothed odacid that changes sex, varies in colour, and moves kelp energy into fish.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
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Herring Cale (Olisthops cyanomelas): Southern Australia's Kelp Mower
The herring cale is a cigar-shaped, beak-toothed herbivore that grazes kelp across the Great Southern Reef — and moves its energy up the food web.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·